Joan Shaw welcomed Jerry Stahl and Al Rothenbach who were appointed to the
Board at the special February meeting and will be approved by the membership at
the Spring Meeting in April.

Joan acknowledged the work that the Group did over the winter months:

Volunteers for Wilderness Workshop- Nov. 5th at the USFS District Headquarters
in Lakewood. 7 members attended. GCWG was honored with the Stewardship
Award. (3946 volunteer hours must have contributed to it) Mike Ricketts USFS
and Joan Shaw presented a Power Point program on the activities of our
group with displays, handouts, graphs and t-shirts.

Forest Service Christmas tree sale. 25 members participated

The Audobon Bird Count. 14 members involved

The White Deer Party. Tom and Karen Givlin did a great job of hosting that
party and a good time was had by all those that participated

Secretary: Mary Bernard read the minutes from the September 30, 2004.

Treasurer's Report: Carolyn Manly gave the president a written financial
report. (A copy is included with these minutes.) Since September, the Group
has spent $550.36 and has deposited $571.75. The Balance on March 7, 2005 was
$1147.35.

Annual dues are due at the spring meeting, however, some members choose to pay
in the fall.

Fund Raising: Joyce Clair gave the president a written inventory report of
t-shirts, bears, polos, etc.. (A copy is included with these minutes.) Joyce
noted that we are now selling more polo shirts than t-shirts to both members
and others. John Ehlen noted that he has some shirts from the Junco cabin at
his house.

Membership: Carolyn Manly reported that the group has 117 members. She will
get more official name tags from the Forest Service for those that need them.

Volunteer Hours: Sue Jackson will continue to collect the volunteer hours.
The process she used last year seemed to work well and she will use the same
process this summer. Chairmen will report the volunteer hours for the
activities of their committees. Individuals will keep their hiking hours.
Sue has already recorded 316 hours for winter activities, even before we start
the hiking season.

Publicity: Joan Shaw noted the excellent article about GCWG in the local paper
a few months ago. She also commended Marsha Brady for sending announcements of
GCWG activities to the paper.

Spring Meeting: The spring meeting will be held on April 17th at 5:30 at the
Summit Building at Snow Mountain Ranch. There will be no speaker. Joan Shaw
will give a 15 minute power point presentation about the GCWG to familiarize
newcomers with the purpose and activities of the group. Jerry Stahl will give
a brief summary of the educational aspects of GCWG. .Each of the chairmen
will give a short pitch about the work of their committee The main dish will be
catered. Mary Bernard will get prices from local caterers.

Goals for 2005: Joan Shaw outlined the goals for GCWG for the 2005 summer
season.

Maintain what we are already doing and continue to do it well

Welcome and orientate new members to the Wilderness Group

New Member Training: Donn Manly will do two new member trainings at the cabins
this year. These trainings were very successful last year.

Cabin Hosting: John Ehlen reported that more than 200 volunteer hours were put
in hosting at the cabins last summer. This year we will start hosting on June
18th and continue until September 11th. John will try a web site for access to
the schedule, hoping that will make it easier for people to sign-up for hosting
and keep track of the schedule for the entire summer. John told the board
that he is resigning from the Board. He will continue to coordinate hosting
activities at Junco this summer and he is willing to train someone to take over
as coordinator for the cabin hosting for next year.

Monarch Cabin: Ann Feucht will coordinate the cabin hosting for Monarch Cabin
again this summer.

Trail Hosting: Carolyn reported that she will continue to schedule trail
hosting in the same way as she did last year. She wants to encourage all
members to participate.

Registration Boxes: Roger Shaw reported that we will still have a registration
box at Byers Peak and we will add two new boxes at the new trail heads in the
Experimental Forest.

Grant for the National Forest Foundation: The grant application needs to be
in by April 17th. The grant is for improvements for 8 trail heads. 4 trail
heads to have new signs and 4 trail heads to have more extensive upgrades
including picture displays. The grant requests $810 from NFF and requires a
matching $810 from our treasury. The work will be finished by October 05. The
members that are involved in writing this grant are: Helen Keesey, Roger Shaw
and Donn Manly.

Joan Shaw will be ending her term as president at the Spring Meeting. She
outlined a few things that she would like to see the Wilderness Group tackle in
the years to come.

Continue to find and apply for grants like the one we are applying for this year

Publish a volunteers handbook

Newsletter: Ann Ginsberg will publish the newsletter in April. She is looking
for input from the board for this edition.

Nominating Committee: Jerry Stahl, Al Rothenbach and Joan Shaw have been
nominated to fill three of the four positions we have open. We need one more
nominee to take John Ehlen's seat. That position is for one year. We will ask
for a nominee from the floor at the Spring Meeting.

New officers Board members will meet briefly at a time designated by Joan
Shaw to elect officers for the next year.

A short discussion followed about having the expectation that the
vice-president will take the president position after one year. There was also
discussion of having an official person (perhaps the vice-president) designated
to be liason with the Forest Service.